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Symplectic Neural Networks in Taylor Series Form for Hamiltonian Systems

11 May 2020arXiv:2005.04986archive 2025-07-28

Yunjin Tong, Shiying Xiong, Xingzhe He, Guanghan Pan, Bo Zhu

We propose an effective and lightweight learning algorithm, Symplectic Taylor Neural Networks (Taylor-nets), to conduct continuous, long-term predictions of a complex Hamiltonian dynamic system based on sparse, short-term observations. At the heart of our algorithm is a novel neural network architecture consisting of two sub-networks. Both are embedded with terms in the form of Taylor series expansion designed with symmetric structure. The key mechanism underpinning our infrastructure is the strong expressiveness and special symmetric property of the Taylor series expansion, which naturally accommodate the numerical fitting process of the gradients of the Hamiltonian with respect to the generalized coordinates as well as preserve its symplectic structure. We further incorporate a fourth-order symplectic integrator in conjunction with neural ODEs' framework into our Taylor-net architecture to learn the continuous-time evolution of the target systems while simultaneously preserving their symplectic structures. We demonstrated the efficacy of our Taylor-net in predicting a broad spectrum of Hamiltonian dynamic systems, including the pendulum, the Lotka--Volterra, the Kepler, and the H\'enon--Heiles systems. Our model exhibits unique computational merits by outperforming previous methods to a great extent regarding the prediction accuracy, the convergence rate, and the robustness despite using extremely small training data with a short training period (6000 times shorter than the predicting period), small sample sizes, and no intermediate data to train the networks.

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